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Point of View | | Jolanta Darczewska, Piotr Żochowski

Active measures Russias key export

The remarks presented in this paper show the complexity and multi-dimensionality of the techniques referred to as ‘active measures’. The renaissance of this question currently observable today has called their role in causing crises into…
Analyses | | Kamil Kłysiński, Piotr Żochowski

Alyaksandr Lukashenka sharpens his rhetoric towards the West

President Alyaksandr Lukashenka informed that the Belarusian prosecution authorities had detained a group of tens of people preparing for an armed provocation.
OSW Report | | Marek Menkiszak, Jan Strzelecki, Piotr Żochowski, Andrzej Wilk, Maria Domańska, Iwona Wiśniewska

Kaliningrad Oblast 2016 The society economy and army

Moscow has been developing a new model of governance for Kaliningrad Oblast in 2016. The changes in the regional government (the governance of the oblast was entrusted to people sent from Moscow and had no links with the region) were part…
Analyses | | Piotr Żochowski, Maria Domańska

The Ulukayev case stepping up the battle within the Russian elite

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation issued a statement on the detention of Aleksei Ulukayev, the minister for economic development.
OSW Studies | | Kamil Kłysiński, Piotr Żochowski

The End Of The Myth of a brot herly Belarus Russian soft power in Belarus after 2014 the background and its manifestations

The Russian narrative on Belarus changed in 2014, when Russian expert circles and the government elite essentially redefined their perception of their Belarusian ally in the context of the conflict in Ukraine and the escalation of tensions…
Analyses | | Piotr Żochowski

Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad a constant element of Russias policy of intimidation

On 8 October the Russian Ministry of Defence confirmed that an Iskander-M missile complex  had been transported to the territory of the Kaliningrad region.  
Analyses | | Piotr Żochowski

Another stage of the consolidation of the Russian law enforcement system

On 19 September, the Kommersant daily newspaper published an article suggesting a large-scale reorganisation of the Russian law enforcement system.
Analyses | | Marek Menkiszak, Piotr Żochowski

Russias reaction to the NATO summit in Warsaw

Political reactions from Russia have so far been negative, if rather moderate.
OSW Commentary | | Piotr Żochowski, Maria Domańska

Business under supervision – pathologies serving the system of power in Russia

The relations between Russia’s authorities and business circles are subordinated not so much to rational economic calculations as to the interests of political elites.
Analyses | | Piotr Żochowski

Russia the National Guard – the internal troops join the game

President Vladimir Putin carried out a restructuring of the internal security system for the first time since 2003.